Background: Ovarian cancer is the most lethal of gynecological cancers and the 5-year survival rate is still low and chemo-resistance is the main obstacle for the treatment of ovarian cancer. Methods and Results: In this study, the human ovarian cancer tissue microarray was applied, 63 cases of chemo-sensitive serous EOC tissues and 32 cases of chemo-resistant serous EOC tissues were selected. By applying RNA fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), we found expression of Lnc-SNHG1 was up-regulated while miR-216b-5p showed low expression in chemo-resistant EOC patients compared with the chemo-sensitive group, both were mainly localized in the cytoplasm of the tissue cells. Chi-square test showed high lnc-SNHG1 level was significantly correlated with tumor stage, histological grade, nodal status, metastasis and chemo-resistance except tumor size. While there was no significant association between miR-216b-5p expression and parameters including tumor stage, histological grade, nodal status, metastasis, except chemo-resistance (P=0.0001). Spearman’s correlation analysis revealed significantly negative correlations between lnc-SNHG1 and miR-216b-5p (r = -0.424, P = 0.0001). Multivariate Cox regression analysis showed the expression of miR-216b-5p (P = 0.012, RR 2.137, 95 % CI 1.109–5.339) and FIGO stage (P = 0.001, RR 3.537, 95 % CI 1.72–7.276) was independent prognostic factors for the overall survival (OS) of serous EOC patients .While the FIGO stage (P = 0.003, RR2.237, 95 % CI 1.323–3.783) was the independent prognostic factor for the disease free survival (DFS) for the serous EOC patients. Kaplan- Meier curves revealed significant association of increased expression of lnc-SNHG1 with less OS and shorter DFS, while patients with low level of miR-216b-5p indicated less OS and DFS. Conclusions: In a word, we claimed over-expression of lnc-SNHG1 and decreased expression of miR-216b-5p were correlated with chemo-resistance of serous EOC patients and indicated less OS and shorter DFS of the patients.